District profile

An overview of Nottingham's population.

The latest estimate of the City’s resident population is 331,100 (Mid-Year Estimates 2018), having risen by 1,860 since 2017.

The City continues to see a large amount of population 'churn', with 31,020 people arriving from elsewhere within the UK and 32,850 leaving.

Population projections suggest that this may rise to around 344,300 by 2027. International migration (recently from Eastern Europe) and an increase in student numbers are the main reasons for the population growth since 2001, together with the excess of births over deaths.

29.7% of the population are aged 18 to 29 – full-time university students comprise about 1 in 8 of the population.

In the short to medium term, the City is unlikely to follow the national trend of seeing large increases in the number of people over retirement age, although the number aged 85+ is projected to increase.

The number of births has risen in recent years until 2011 but the numbers have slowly declined since then.

The 2011 Census shows 35% of the population as being from BME groups; an increase from 19% in 2001.

Despite its young age-structure, Nottingham has a higher than average rate of people with a limiting long-term illness or disability.

White ethnic groups have higher rates of long term health problems or disability overall, although this varies with age, with some BME groups having higher rates in the older age-groups.

The City gains young adults due to migration, both international and within Britain, whilst losing all other age groups - this includes a net loss of families with children mostly through moves to the surrounding districts.

There is a high turnover of population - 21% of people changed address in the year before the 2011 Census.

Further information about the Nottingham's population

Nottingham is ranked 8th most deprived district in England in the 2015 Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), a relative fall from 20th in the 2010 IMD.

Around a third of super output areas in the City are in the worst 10% nationally (IMD 2015).

34.2% of children and 25.8% of people aged 60 and over are affected by income deprivation.

Health and Disability is the Indices of Deprivation domain on which Nottingham does worst, followed by Education, Skills & Training and Crime.

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